The Baddest Villainess Is Back - Chapter 166
Never before had she failed to smile when she wanted to, so Roxelyn, a bit flustered, gently rubbed her lips with her thumb.
“It’s true.”
Roxelyn gently rubbed her lips and then smiled brightly as usual.
The reason Roxelyn smiled in the face of hostility was to provoke and mock her opponent. Smiling brightly in a situation where she should clearly be unhappy, disadvantaged, and angry was a way to show that she wasn’t affected at all by the other party.
It rendered the opponent’s attack ineffective and showcased her composure.
So Roxelyn often smiled and knew how to laugh well in the face of hostility and misfortune.
‘…Ah, it’s because I have no intention of provoking.’
She suddenly realized why her lips didn’t curl up easily.
“Anyway… I apologize for deceiving you.”
Roxelyn said leisurely.
“I was hesitant to tell you, but I ended up thinking a lot here. You might feel displeased now, but I’m quite happy.”
I left the house early, she added.
The real reason she brought up this lengthy story was simple.
The arson and disappearance incidents, as well as the Makruxa matter, were almost resolved, and the issue with Kaluta was being handled.
“If I don’t tell the truth, you won’t allow the engagement to be broken or stop me when I try to die, so I’m letting you know in advance.”
She didn’t want to hurt anyone by suddenly dying while pretending to be the real Roxelyn.
That wasn’t her intention, so it was better to prepare them and let them know she was a different person.
“…Hey, wait. What do you mean by trying to die?!”
Ian, who had been quietly listening, shouted, still held by Aegis by the scruff of his neck.
Ah, realizing she hadn’t explained enough, Roxelyn sighed softly and added,
“My Abyss. Apparently, I do have one. It’s an Abyss that activates only when I die, so I have to die.”
She smiled, receiving the shocked gaze of the Reaper.
“…What kind of ability is that?”
“If I die, I can go back to the past once and live again by borrowing someone else’s body.”
So I intend to return, Roxelyn answered calmly.
“So… now, you’re going to leave us… you’re going to leave me… to die?”
Zerti Bellion muttered with a deeply wounded expression.
“I’m not abandoning you. I’m giving you back what’s yours.”
Roxelyn placed her hand on her chest and spoke.
“A… A daughter who abandons her father… where in the world…”
Zerti Bellion, who had once again fallen into a panic, lowered his head and began muttering something.
“Or maybe I was never your father in the first place…”
Roxelyn fell silent at the sight of the spreading purple poison mist around her.
“Ah, who are you trying to kill again! Can’t you control your ability?! You idiot!”
“…If Roxelyn dies… I have no reason to live…”
Watching him mutter, Roxelyn turned her head and spoke after a long pause.
“Dad, I’ve never called you ‘father’ properly. I always thought you hated me…”
So Roxelyn had never approached him first.
Since he didn’t approach her, she concluded that he hated her.
Since he hated her, she too decided to hate him, facing the world with a narrow and immature heart.
“If I had tried to talk to you properly even once…”
As Roxelyn murmured, Zerti Bellion slowly lifted his head.
“I would have realized much sooner that you were a soft-hearted, gloomy, dark person with no self-esteem.”
“…Daughter?”
Zerti Bellion staggered and opened his mouth at Roxelyn’s words.
Roxelyn added,
“I’m joking.”
“…Your jokes are quite harsh.”
“Dad, you’re an expert in poisons. You wouldn’t die from the plague or any poison.”
“…That’s mostly true.”
To Zerti Bellion, poison was like air to ordinary people.
Even if poison was introduced into his system, it would only become stronger, and he, who was born with a poison Abyss, would not die from poisoning.
“But my father did die.”
Roxelyn said quietly.
Only then did Zerti Bellion recall the day he went berserk and what Roxelyn had said.
